The Cornhusker Concentration Camp, Errrr, Clink!!!

Because we here in Nebraska love anything with the word "Husker" or "Cornhusker" or "Big Red" or "prison" in it the latest travesty from Homeland Security Chairman and dog murderer Kristi Noem is the placement of another cutely named concentration camp right here in CornHuskerland. McCook, Nebraska is the lucky recipient of this place to imprison farm workers, restaurant employees, construction workers and their children. Noem is so cute in her cosplay uniform of the day, in this case it's probably a whip carrying warden on a horse, that she named this monstrosity, Cornhusker Clink. Ooooooo Im so overwhelmed by something named after our extreme mediocrity of a football team that I cannot breathe. Cue the screaming Beatles fans.

Now look, McCook is barely in Nebraska, stuck down in the southwestern corner of the state where nobody ever goes. Its more Kansas or Colorado but whatever. McCook was the first town in this state to lose their hospital because of that Big Ugly Ass Bill. It closed, or will be closing, because of the uncertainty of Medicaid funding. Oh wait, rural Nebraska uses Medicaid? How socialist of them. McCook, or rather Curtis County, voted for Trump with 85% of the vote going to the orange alleged child molester so there's a temptation to say Schadenfreude Bitches but I digress. 

As a bleeding heart libtard, aka a decent person, I really don't want anybody, including the Maga cult, to get their health care cancelled by a truly despicable administration of cruelty and hate. Despite the news reports of residents of McCook poo pooing the hospital closure as not Trumps fault, again, it's a self-administered disaster caused by about 85% of the Curtis County residents. Well ok then. Sometimes people need to be saved from themselves.

Back to the Cornhusker Concentration Camp. Despite the bootlicking local support of Governor Jim "Pass the Vodka" Pillen, the human penis, Senator Pete Ricketts, and Trump simps like Representatives Mike "Medicaid Has Been Increased I Swear" Flood and Adrian "Who the Fuck Am I" Smith, a concentration camp holding their friends and neighbors isn't really all that popular anyplace in this state. The local yokel state senator from out there hasn't put her finger in the air yet so she has to do some "further study" to see what she thinks. The mayor of McCook, the county commissioners and the residents all were wandering around when the Governor showed up to announce the camp. Basically, their response was "excuse me?" 

Theres already a "prison" in McCook. A minimum-security work camp that has 186 residents who are being rehabilitated with actual jobs. The Governor, a real tool, announced those inmates will be relocated to a prison system designed to hold 4000 that currently has 6000 inmates. Pillen will do anything for his orange master, including telling the skeptics they need to get onboard the Trump Train and critics don't know what they are talking about. Pillen, who has a difficult time swearing in new National Guard members at halftime of a football game (ahhh he was hammered), is obsessed with Trump. He defeated Trumps handpicked candidate for Governor, a real grabass named Herbster, so he needs to get in line to lick Trumps ass cuz he's up for reelection in 2026. So, 186 work camp residents will be thrown back in a cell with real criminals in the overcrowded Nebraska prison system, perhaps the worst in the nation. And the new Cornhusker Concentration Camp will be built, surrounded by ICE thugs, Nebraska National Guard folks and people with pitchforks.

Good luck Nebraska. The workers, many of them undocumented, who make the farm economy go, will be sitting in a camp while crops rot in the fields, raising prices and forcing MAGAts to come up with some cockamamie excuse to blame Biden.

As long as we're at it, Governor Three Sheets, lets change the state motto from "Equality Under The Law" to "Arbeit Macht Frei". 

Resist!

Penn & Teller!

 

50 years these two have been dazzling audiences with magic tricks, Don't say illusions or Penn gets pissed. Its tricks dammit. They refuse to lie and pretend its real.

The two magicians played the Orpheum Theater last evening to what looked like a sold-out crowd. Penn was the voice; Teller was the silent magician as usual. The tricks are amazing and the participation by the audience is essential. Penn would call children onto the stage, give them shit just like he does to adults, and allow them to be the "punch line". We had Live Your Dreams, we had count the jellybeans, we had a weird pointless Entropy skit that ended up being very pointed. We had a Spanish trick that killed. All the while Penn's motormouth entertained the audience with "frustration" at kids who didn't follow instructions, adults who tried to be funny (dont) and the crowd who didn't follow instructions. It's a brilliant combination of magic and comedy.

The last act before the Entropy reveal (which is genius by the way) was inviting anybody who "believed" that Penn and Teller used "stooges" to fool the audience. onto the stage where yet another trick involving the Bible was unfolded.

The show is a bit over 90 minutes and it goes like that. You don't even notice the time its so captivating. If you've seen them In Las Vegas realize the touring show is all new stuff. The show is not as long as the Vegas show because the venue is probably not suited for some of their tricks (no magic bullet) but it is well worth the price of admission.

Brilliant!

Z Z Top!

 I first saw ZZ Top in 1973 in Omaha, pre-beards, at the old Civic Auditorium. This was so long ago that the opening act was Aerosmith, followed by Sugarloaf. ZZ Top was touring after that release of Tres Hombres, one of the great albums of the 1970s. I saw ZZ Top, also at the Civic, post beards, in 1980 or 81 and they had the longhorn onstage with a rattlesnake, in a cage thank gawd. They are what they are. Just a rock band.

Night Ranger opened to a tepid response. They have a lot of songs I didn't realize were theirs because I absolutely despise hair metal. Jack Blades seems like a decent enough guy, but man he's just not my cup of tea.

ZZ Top took the stage to a much better response. Under Pressure opened the show and had such a lousy sound mix I was worried the rest of the show would be just as bad. But like pros that have pros running the show it got fixed quickly. Billy Gibbons is joined onstage by former guitar tech Elwood Francis who got the job after the death of Dusty Hill probably because he's a brilliant bassist and he already has the beard. John Douglas played drums in place of Frank Beard who has had health problems.

The band is just straight ahead rock n roll. All the hits are there, no here's something off our latest album stuff, from Gimme All your Lovin, which the crowd recognized easily from the drum opening volley to the encore of La Grange. Theres not a song you wont recognize if you're a fan or have just been alive for the last 51 years. Remember those 80's  videos where they stood aside for a bigger story? Well now its just play the damn song, whether it be Sharp Dressed Man or Legs. 

And it still glorious.

Trumpstein!

 Did Trump engage in sex with under 18's? Of course he did, nobody with a room temp IQ doubts it. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were inseparable for years. They both enjoyed the same things, most of which is illegal, immoral and just plain sick. And now, you'd think Trump never met the guy. The Epstein list is going to be released, it's on Pam Bondi's desk awaiting review, Bondi "reviewed" it and told Trump he's in the files, then all of a sudden there was no Epstein List. Its all a fraud. made up by Obama and Biden and the Democrats. Then, because this pervert cant shut his ass up, he shades Bill Clinton and Larry Summers and a bunch of hedge fund guys, HEY he'll give you the list.

WAIT! There's a list after all? Trump is such a blabbermouth he digs a grave that 99,9% of humans would already be in, yet somehow Trump can get his fellow grifters like Charlie Kirk, Tim Pool, J D Vance, and the rest of the paid con artists profiting off Trumps debauchery to do the ol' 180 and claim they now don't care about Epstein any longer. He's got power and charisma that's for sure but it doesn't change the fact the President of the United States is a kiddie diddler, a felon, a rapist, a thief and a golf cheat.

Trumpstein is one of those guys we call a useful idiot. The Project 2025 scum will use him up, get what they want, then when it's accomplished, Trump will be shooed off to the dustbin of hedonists. Oh well we didn't know, oh my what a horror show, he needs to resign and then Peter Thiel's bitch, J D Vance, can continue the road to authoritarianism. 

Trump's latest foray into I didn't like Epstein, didn't know Epstein, or threw Epstein overboard involves Epstein stealing his employees from Mar A Lago. Purely business, eh? Tomorrow we may hear that Trumpstein was undercover to bring down a child sex trafficker and HAD to partake to keep his cover.

Meanwhile the well-known pimp and perjurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, doing 20 years for various crimes against humanity, was interviewed by Trumps personal lawyer, no not Bondi, in federal prison for some reason which I'm sure is a precursor to her saying Trump is innocent, Clinton and anyone else Trump wants to take down is guilty and she's an innocent victim of Democrats. Trump then pardons her, she stays silent and it all goes away.

What kind of moron buys any of this? I am not sure but trust me there are millions who will.

Did you know there are 4700 financial transactions in the Epstein files? Wouldn't that be interesting to see the names on that list. 47? Trump is 47. There ya go Q anon. Thats enough "evidence" for you to con more people out of money and their intelligence.

Will this whole sordid slog of degeneracy be enough to take Trump down? I have no idea. This guy is a walking scandal day after day and nothing sticks. Yeah, he has 38% approval, but he wasn't that much more popular in 2024 and America said sure why not, FASCISM RULES!

This country is truly in the Age of Stupid.

Ozzy!

 You could say making it to age 76 means Ozzy Osbourne won. Christ the guy should have died 40 years ago. Ozzy was the ultimate front man whether it was Black Sabbath or solo. He was the Prince of Fucking Darkness for gawd sakes.

Ozzy was a chubby kid from England when he was chosen to front Black Sabbath, perhaps the first heavy metal band. Those of us of a certain age and of a certain musical preference knew of Ozzy from the get-go. I mean come on now, War Pigs? Paranoid? Children of the Grave? Those were unlike anything we'd ever heard before. This was punch you in the mouth rock, there was no room onboard for wimps and we all went along for the ride. Dammit, your heroes die just like everyone else.

Ozzy didn't play a damn thing. He just shared the best musicians he could find and went out and rocked the arenas and stadiums. He acted all goofy onstage whether by design or by just being himself. And could he bring you along for the bumpy ride. Ozzy was exhausting to watch. He sweated, he dumped water over his head, he sprayed foam all over the front rows and once bit the head off a bat he thought was a toy. THAT made him a legend among disaffected youth. A pure accident.

The reality show, The Osbournes, made him a household name. He was made fun of, he looked a fool, he let Sharon use him to make cash. Some of us didn't like it, but most people thought it was hilarious. It seemed Ozzy was mush brained, used by his overbearing wife and kids to secure a lifestyle they'd grown accustomed to. He got Parkinsons, obviously from years of drug abuse, alcohol abuse and bad food. Yet he was still pushed out on tours he may not have wanted to be on. Just weeks ago he was pushed onto a stage for the last time on a throne, sang a few songs and left. Forever.

Ozzy wasn't the greatest singer. He wasn't the best frontman. But dammit he was entertaining as hell. But most of all he rocked for 76 years. We should all be so lucky.

Cheers Ozzy.

Chilling Effect Achieved!

The chilling effect is here. Corporate America is scared. They always get scared when their bottom line is threatened because Corporate America doesn't give a shit about the constitution, what they give a shit about is making money. And if they have to kowtow to a mad King, well they've proved they will. ABC settled with the Mad King over nothing. They took Trumps nuisance suit and just paid it. Chilling Effect 1. Paramount (owner of CBS) wants to merge with Skydance and in order to do so need FCC approval. They settled Trumps nuisance suit over an edit done by everyone from CBS down to the Lindell TV for $16 million. Also allegedly provided $16 million of free propaganda to advance authoritarianism. And now? They have fired Stephen Colbert, the Trump critic that holds nothing back. Oh, I guess technically he wasn't "fired" but his show was cancelled as of May 2026 when his contract is up. Trump gloats like the glorified thug he is.

Who's next? Jon Stewart? Jimmy Kimmel? Stewart's contract expires in December 2025. Kimmel's contract is up in 2026. Are they secure? Not with Donnie Dipshit in charge. ABC already folded to the bully boy in chief. Skydance will own Jon Stewart if the merger goes through. Do you think any of the cowardly media conglomerates will stand up to back channel demands to fire Kimmel or Stewart and replace them with "funnyman" Tony Hinchcliffe or "comedian" Theo Van? Will Dennis Miller make a comeback? Larry The Cable Guy hosting a late night ahow dedicated to kissing Trumps ass?

This really is a chilling effect on free speech. Conservatives have been whining for years that they are "censored" by big media. Anyone who has google knows what bullshit that is. But they thrive on being the victims. They hate watch Trump critics just so they can be offended and narc them out to the powers that be. The podcasters, the manosphere, the right wing paid Russian assets, the regime itself, and twitter, the Nazi forum some of us still fight with.

Colin Kaepernick was blacklisted for kneeling during the anthem. Jan 6ers were pardoned for trying to kill the Vice President, breaking into the Capitol and shitting in waste baskets. Breonna Taylor was murdered by a cop for sleeping. The cop who did it will serve one day in jail because Pam Bondi and the DOJ are racists. The Rosenbergs were killed for doing less spying for Russia than most of the people in this regime. Chilling effect.

Trump and his goons will continue to push the envelope further and further. The Democrats will do nothing. The courts will do nothing. The Supreme Court is nothing but a kangaroo court for Harlan Crowe and Donald Trump to do their bidding. We are in the throes of fascism right fucking now. Are you gonna do anything?

In a normal world, which hasn't existed since the Degenerate In Chief descended down the golden escalator to applause from paid actors in 2015 and called all Mexicans rapists and murderers which allowed the slime under the rocks to emerge. In a normal world, Colbert, the ratings winner, would be scooped up by someone. But in this world, are the media chickenshits willing to fight back?

Pardon me while I howl in laughter.

We are fucked.

Divide And Conquer!

 The Moron in Chief continues to throw the world his famous knuckleball regarding economics and it continually rolls to the screen. 25% tariffs on Japan, Mister Japan to be exact, which maybe or maybe not will ever go into effect, could be the stupidest thing this economic illiterate may ever do, Ya see, Japan holds most of the United States' debt in bonds and loans. Ya don't piss off the bank that holds your destiny in their hands. But when it comes to a lifelong deadbeat like Trump, what does he care? This guy has never paid a debt in his life. In fact, one of the dumber things he's ever said, and it's a long list, was he would wipe out the debt by turning it into crypto? WTF? This man child will bankrupt this nation like he did his casinos. President Deadbeat, that's what 49.8% of this stupid country voted for. 

The Big Ugly Bill passed. The Republicans danced, oh how they danced on the backs of the poor, the brown, the elderly, the very white trash that voted for them. They YMCA'd in front of a camera, while the miserable dopes who voted for Trump had no idea what had just happened to them. They gave Trump a prop gavel to pound like a toddler and they all laughed. Oh, how they laughed as President Fisher Price pounded the gavel with a stupid look on his face. The billionaires, the 1%, the Republican politicians funded by moral lepers, the oil and gas leeches, the corporate blood suckers, the masked thugs hired by ICE, the military industrial complex, they all danced. Their time has come.

Meanwhile, the very rural voters who voted 75-90% to deport nonwhites and didn't like the black lady, are about the get reality jammed up their bums. Medicaid will be destroyed, thus destroying rural health clinics, hospitals and nursing homes. Already in rural Nebraska (no we aren't all hicks here) in a county that voted for Trump 94%, a rural hospital is closing due to uncertainty about Medicaid cuts. More to come. Enjoy your bigotry. It's really fucked you now. Karma.

Alligator Alcatraz. A concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades. A tent city with cages. The "worst of the worst" undocumented will be housed there. Ya know, the field workers, restaurant cooks, the home health care workers, the construction workers, the roofers, the very people who make rural America go. The people who will be housed there, with the mosquitos and the bugs and the humidity, are urged to not escape because "Alligator Auschwitz" is surrounded by gators and pythons and other deadly creatures. And the Republicans laughed and put up signs and hoped for escapes so they could be entertained by the thought of a brown person being killed by gators. 

Meanwhile Trump has offered what is called "owner responsibility" which is fancy term for slavery. You see, Trump's goons take workers off farms or construction sites or ranches and then "sells' them back under "owner responsibility". The owner of the farm, ranch or whatever can have back his workers he paid under the table and not pay them at all now. Corporate America salivates over this concept as their already slave wages become actual slave wages. Nothing. All in the name of "shareholders" or "competitiveness" they will come up with new terms to justify their thievery and human trafficking. These are the moral lepers Trump appeals to.

We once fought a war over this. The concept that human beings could be bought and sold as unpaid slaves. The good guys won that war. 

Unfortunately, I am not sure the good guys would win this time. Theres's way too many people out there busting their ass waiting for the riches that will never come. Blaming the browns and the blacks and the gays and the chicks for fucking up their perceived Fatherland. Sorry rubes, the 1950s are not coming back. The tax cuts for the prosperous have been made permanent. And you aint getting any of it.

Resist

Saturdays Suck Lately!

 Every Saturday for the next 4 years? This nitwit of a President seems to do the stupid stuff on the weekends, whether it be a failed "perade" of out of step soldiers walking along or bombing Iran because he was jealous of the positive Fox News coverage of Bibi Netanyahu bombing Iran. The President, a man desperate to show how much of an alpha he is ( spoiler--Hés not), allegedly told Putin what he intended to do so Vlad could warn the Iranians to get their nuclear crap out of harms way, started saying "two weeks" again, and then once there was zero chance of being effective, launched the raid. As the media all bought the bullshit as they always do, practically ejaculating as they described a "bunker buster" bomb "penetrating" a mountain and then "exploding" all over a hole. Meanwhile, the Four Stooges, Moe (Trump), Larry (Rubio), Curly (Hegseth) and Shemp (Jose  D Bowman) strutted out to announce the bombing. As Moe struggled to read a teleprompter, he suddenly glitched and announced he loved God and God Bless Israel. Then the foursome turned and walked back out. Operation Midnight Hammer (ed) had already started for Hegseth, I'm sure.

The MAGAts mostly fell into line, after screaming about no war with Iran, suddenly became neo cons and little John Boltons praising their Dear Leader. If it wasn't so sad that the cultists continue to be culty, it'd be hilarious. After all, they worship fake alphas.

It's all bullshit as we all know. Iran suffered no damage, the response today from Iran, attacking Qatar (after telling them) and did no damage. It's all face saving of course. Trump has his exit ramp now, whether he will be smart enough to take it is debatable. Iran has its exit ramp, and the world will go back to normal. Kissing Netanyahu's ass on our part and Iran posturing for the crazies on theirs. Lets hope it over, for now.

Senator Mike Lee, the shitposting balloon headed Senator from Utah, is attempting to sell of public lands in the Big Beautiful Bill to create "affordable housing". Excuse me while I vomit. Lee, a despicable toady without a soul, of course has no intention to help nor sympathy for the homeless. This is all a ruse to sell public lands to Lee's donor class to build high end resorts, luxury homes with a view and airports for the rich and famous. Lee's lies are legendary; from his denial he wanted to end Social Security after being caught on video saying that exact thing to his blaming a "Marxist" for murdering two Minnesotans he would probably call that exact thing. Lee is opposed by the Democrats of course, but is also opposed by the former Trump Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke who says no no no. Zinke, who made no sense while serving in the Trump practice nightmare of the first administration, suddenly makes sense. Whether he can be bought off remains to be seen but for now, he's the voice of reason. Lee is a real asshole, perhaps even more so than Ted Cruz, and he needs to be stopped. Let's hope Zinke is the Superman of the moment. Fingers crossed.

ICE thugs continue to harass anybody not white. Last week the raided a plant in Omaha and arrested 76 people, most of whom (75%)  had zero criminal records while the rest had minor traffic charges. I would urge people to read the story right here and then tell me people busting their asses to make a living deserve this. Yeah, they used false documentation to get the jobs, fooled the feds and worked like dogs. But using false SS numbers mean the system gets money and will never pay it out. Hmmm.

I made a trip down 24th Street Saturday here in Omaha. This street is the heart of Hispanic Omaha. Food trucks, flea markets, restaurants, thrift shops, grocery stores. Just last month there was a Cinco De Mayo "parede" full of Republican politicians and Hispanic pride. No, after the ICE raid, it's a paranoid hellscape. Businesses shut down, some locked their doors and won't let anyone in they don't know because of course ICE goons have no uniforms and any gringo could be ICE. It's truly sad to see.

Finally, the Commander in Chief truthed out a nice little supportive screed on Juneteenth, stating Americans get too much time off work, hate holidays, and agree with him that there are too many holidays. Oh yeah, Mr. Burns? I don't know of anyone who doesn't welcome days off after so many work weeks. But Scrooge McDumbass firing off this text on Juneteenth was a first salvo at eliminating Juneteenth as a federal holiday. If he succeeds at that, which he will not, gee I wonder what other holiday he will attempt to repeal next. 

I have a dream, that this jerk off beta male just goes away. ASAP!

Resist every day.

Weird Weekend In America!

Protests, "perades", assassinations, manhunts, US Senators mocking political assassinations, and it ended with a declaration of war by a mad King on blue cities while ignoring the Red States and their field workers, meat plant workers and construction workers. This is America today. Within 72 hours all hell breaks loose and this is an everyday occurrence nowadays in President Chaos's world.

Early Saturday morning a kook, dressed as a cop in a mask and driving a car made to resemble a police car, walked up to a house in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, rang the doorbell and when State Rep Melissa Hortman answered he shot her, her husband and their Golden Retriever killing all three. Yes, I do consider a Golden Retriever a person. The culprit then drove to the home of State Senator John Hoffman, rang the bell, and when answered pumped nine bullets into him and 8 into his wife. The cops showed up, the killer ran back into the house and out the backdoor eluding capture. The manhunt took 36 hours until they caught Vance Boelter in a farm field 3 miles from his house. Good job to the law enforcement of Minnesota.

Who is this guy? The Magats jumped immediately, blaming the killings on the fact there was a vote on healthcare for undocumented people and one of the two voted to take it away. This "proves" a Democrat killed one of their own for that vote. The killer was an appointee to a meaningless board of businessmen by Gov Tim Walz, thus "proving" he was a Democrat. Blah blah blah. Same old shit. Jan 6ers were feds, Antifa, or FBI. Trumps attempted assassin was a "radical left lunatic". The gaslighting never stops with these people. A sitting United States Senator, Mike Lee (R-Utah), posted two tweets mocking the killings on some weird ass twitter account while at the same time condemning it on his official Senate account. The guy is not well and hasn't been for years.

Look, it's common knowledge that Vance Boelter is a right wing nutjob. Ranting about abortion and illicit sex, loved Trump and had a hit list of 70 Democrats in various states in the Midwest, all pro-choice. This isn't that hard. I am not blaming MAGAts. I'm blaming Vance Boelter who just happens to be MAGA. Much like I'm not blaming the left for Luigi Mangione. I'm blaming Luigi Mangione. People are individuals, associated with various groups and political views, and certainly may be radicalized by bad actors, but in the end, it's on the killers. Nobody is going to indict Trump for the killing, though Mike Lee might be looked at. Ha who am I kidding, like Patel's FBI would ever do that. This is one sick society we live in. And its only gonna get worse as long as the bull in the china shop is still there.

Trump's lil 79th birthday "perade", held in DC and featuring a not so happy military presence. Out of step marching (many vets say it was on purpose), squeaky tanks, a guy holding a drone, guys sweating to death in Revolutionary War uniforms, more squeaky tanks, and yawning politicians. The crowd was small, empty stands, empty fields and less than enthusiastic troops. Happy Birthday Donnie. $65 million for an ego stroke. But anyway, congrats on 250 years to the United States Army, which my old man served in fighting Nazis 1941-1946. As far as 79th birthdays go, congrats Donnie, it's amazing the Big Macs haven't done a number on you yet.

No Kings protests took place in all 50 states. They were violence free other than MAGAts showing up at a couple of protests with guns and causing trouble. A man was killed in SLC by a volunteer security person firing madly at a guy with a rifle/ So much for volunteer security. The protest here in Omaha took place across the river in Council Bluffs, Iowa. This was done in deference to the College World Series, taking place in Omaha. We were there. It was too hot for human existence and being age challenged, we left after 90 minutes or so. I despise Trump, but I won't let the disdain kill me.

In Los Angeles, the protests were peaceful, confined to a two-block radius, and then came the sheriffs on horses playing Wyatt Earp and beating on people, shooting tear gas and causing trouble. Why is it ALWAYS the county sheriffs starting the trouble? They did it here in 2020 by charging people sitting down in the street and beating them up and they did it in LA over the weekend. Sheriffs. Man, why not try and become real cops instead of bitter bullies with power? There is open warfare here in Omaha as the Omaha Police Department has warned the Douglas County Sheriff's Department to stay in their own lane. Seems like our Sheriff, a short little man always dressed in tactical gear, can't mind his own business. They came into Omaha and killed a kid, they participated in the ICE raids, and they are always willing to stick their nose in business they don't belong. The OPD has had enough.

Who hasn't had enough? Trump got his "perade", the protests were massive, and Trump is pissed. So, before even condemning the Minnesota murders, he sent a lengthy insane Truth Social post where he declared war on Blue America. Trump and his ICE thugs will invade LA, Chicago, New York and any other blue city he feels like invading. He wants violence, he wants death, he wants to invoke the insurrection act so he can unleash the American military on its citizens. Trump is a despicable 79-year-old despot out for revenge because he's never been accepted into celebrity society he so longs for. If we let him get away with it, we shall be sorry.

Resist. Never Stop. Our country is at stake.

Brian Wilson And Sly Stone!

The deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson remind us boomers of our own mortality. Chrissakes, if the legends die that means we all are gonna die too. It's a fact that we cannot get away from. Time kills us all. But we still have Sly and Brian's music and it will always make that inevitable demise much less painful.

The Beach Boys. As a literal child of the 60's, how can one not be familiar with the sounds of California. I came of musical awareness not because of the Beach Boys but because of the Beatles and the Monkees and the Doors. The Doors were California to me. The Beach Boys were too slick. Too appealing to girls for me. A Beach Boys concert in the mid 70's at the old Civic Auditorium in Omaha, minus Brian Wilson, made me really a non-fan. The screeching girls, the adoration of friends of mine, I didn't get it. We ended up sitting down on the floor and wished it was over. I secretly had taped the concert for another person who couldnt attend, and when I gave them the cassette they acted like they had obtained the Holy Grail. I'm sure the quality was awful but whatever floats your surfboard I guess. Years and years later, I saw a sort of version of the Beach Boys with Mike Love and Bruce Johnston and it wasnt that bad. I even kind of liked it. My older age had caught up with me. Now I understand the genius of Brian Wilson. Listening to the albums I had previously rejected as tripe, I got a whole new perspective, one of a middle-aged man, not of a rebellious teen into the anti-establishment rock of the Doors and the Airplane. Brian had his problems. But don't we all? We aren't in the public limelight, thus we don't get lied about or ridiculed for our weirdo behavior. In fact, a sandbox in my house sounds kind of intriguing now. RIP Brian Wilson.

Sly Stone. Sly and The Family Stone. Never heard of them. And then I bought the Woodstock album. I bought it for Hendrix, for the Who, for CSNY and for the Airplane. What I got was not only them, but an introduction to the band that blew the place up at 3:30 AM. Sly and the Family Stone did Dance to the Music, I want to Take You Higher and Music Lover. Good lord. Who the hell are these guys? And then I heard "All the Squares go home" and fell in love with Cynthia Robinson (RIP Cynthia). What the hell? It was band of blacks and whites and was pure joy. Much like Santana, the diversity appealed to me. But Sly Stone. With his huge afro and wide smile, who could not love this guy? I wore that Woodstock album out listening to those Sly and the Family Stone songs. Wow, the hits after were so come together y'all who couldn't love it? Everyday People, Thank You, Family Affair, Hot Fun in the Summertime. This was the black Beach Boys. Live life, hate nobody, have fun. Then came the drugs, the crazy wedding at Madison Square Garden, the mohawk, the disappearance. Sly Stone and Brian Wilson were kindred spirits. Both did their own thing, were self-destructive and had trouble living among us peasants.

And now they are both gone. I hope they find happiness wherever they are. Genius is a bitch.

MJ The Musical!

 Before MJ The Musical begins, people wander around on stage. It's kind of confusing at first as we see people walking into what seems to be a rehearsal studio. We get a man keeping time by shouting 5 minutes to Michael, 3 minutes to Michael, 1 minute to Michael as the performers stretch and dance and do yoga. Then in comes Michael, to great applause. We then get Beat It, complete with the Eddie Van Halen solo. The musical then begins to explain the story of the Jacksons, The Jackson 5 and Michael himself.

MJ is preparing for the 1992 Dangerous Tour. His perfectionism and quirky wants and needs are driving people crazy. His manager fights him on safety issues; his accountant fights him on money issues. It's a disaster in the making. An MTV journalist shows up to interview Michael and thinks she's going to break through. But he has conditions. Only musical questions. This is the catalyst for the story.

We go back in time to Michael with the Jackson 5, the domineering father Joseph Jackson, the brothers and the abuse as the Jacksons try and please Dad to no avail. We get the Apollo; the Ed Sullivan show and the gigs in places long in the past. Hit after hit put the pressure on Michael as the front man.

Michael grows up, physically at least, and goes out on his own. Meanwhile, we go back and forth in time from the troubled 1992 MJ to the Thriller MJ. Will the tour even happen? Those are all questions answered at the end of the musical. We get references to Bubbles, the hyperbaric chamber, the pill popping, and even a short reference to the "allegations". But since MJ the Musical is approved by the Jackson Family, that's as far as it goes. Well ok, but it's all about the music. As Michael tells Rachel the MTV interviewer, "listen to my music and it will answer any questions you have".

Now the performances. Jordan Markus is adult MJ, speaking in a constant whisper and nailing the moves and the voice. He is phenomenal. Devin Bowles plays Joe Jackson AND Rob the tour manager. He moves from one character to the next in the blink of an eye. He is a brutal money hungry grifter one instant and the caring father figure of Rob within seconds. He's great also. The young Michael and teenaged Michael, played by Quentin Blanton Jr and Erik Hamilton respectively. Those kids have great voices and great presence. Anastasia Talley plays Katherine Jackson, their mother, with a sense of keeping the family together to matter what. She gets a solo song towards the end that had the audience cheering as it well should. Her voice is perhaps the best in show. Rachel the journalist is played by Cecilia Petrush, and she is basically the narrator. She doesn't sing much but sets the tone for the story's back and forth timeline. She's kind of irrelevant to the story to be honest. I found her cynical cameraman, played by Anthony Garcia, to be the comic relief and it was apparent he's a stage veteran.

The background dancers and singers do their job with flair and great dedication. It's a good cast.

So now what about MJ the Musical as a 2 1/2-hour experience. Did I love it? No. Did I like it? Sure. Is it too long? Yes. Was the music great? Yes. Was the band superb? Yes. So, what's not to like?

No idea. It just struck me as cold. Like the Tina Turner musical, it was musically brilliant, but the story didn't grab me. I guess it's just a matter of taste. If you want a Vegasy impersonation and legends show you'll love this. If you prefer a story, warts and all, maybe it just doesn't get there for you. That's me. It fell just short.

However, we do get the 3 things MJ started. We get the robotic moves of Soul Train, the moonwalk of Billy Jean on the Motown at 20 special, and finally the lean of Smooth Criminal (my favorite MJ song).

Stick round after the curtain call as you get a real jam session where all the minor characters get to show their chops. 

The sound sucked as usual at the Orpheum, perhaps the whispery voice of MJ contributed to that but the music was grand. The crowd was kind of lukewarm, perhaps due to the fact MJ's core audience is now over 60 and not quite as energetic as the kids on stage.

Should you see it? Yes, of course. It's fun for us old folks to remember our youth. 

The "Invasion"!!

Show me anything in this now deleted tweet that is untrue. Stephen Miller is a bitter punk, once rejected by a Hispanic high schooler and now the chief architect of the Final Solution. At this point it's round em up and deport them to some other shithole prison where nobody knows what happens to them. Ya know, like Auschwitz. Sooner more than later, if they get away with this, we shall see them round up American citizens and who knows what will happen to them.

But ABC, led by the coward Bob Iger, got a load of that Terry Moran tweet and made him delete it before suspending him for telling the truth about a guy nobody fucking voted for. ABC, not known for courage, refuses to stand up for its reporters, anchors and show staff. They recently poured $15 million into Trumps pockets because George Stephanopoulos hurt Trumps feewings. CBS is close to paying off the Felon for doing what all networks do, editing a boring part of an interview, I hope they stand their ground, but fascism needs corporations to cooperate, and man are they ever cooperating with this thuggish administration.

What's going in Los Angeles is nothing more than government sanctioned violence. Egged on by Trump, his plastic Barbie Noem, his scummy AG and his drunken Defense Secretary, the violence was started as it usually is. By nerds who were bullied in high school now with power. Cops and Guardsmen and Sheriff's Deputies and State Patrols and perhaps US Marines are dying to get revenge on those bullies who probably grew up and aren't like that any longer. Which you can't say about the goons who are sketchy and embraced by ICE. 

An American version of Bloody Sunday is upon us. It's inevitable in this current mood of half the country appalled by these ICE hooligans and the other half who want F15s to strafe their fellow Americans. When it happens, and the Trumpers all come in their shorts, it will finish us as a country. We will have turned the corner from the world's finest democracy to an authoritarian shithole. Once you massacre a number of Americans, it becomes easier to do it again and again. Because journalism is fucking dead. Unable and unwilling to hold these Trump ruffians accountable, news corps are joining the team. Don't offend these guys because we may have lost profits and ever since 1980, journalism is just another money-making division of the American Conglomerate.

LA is not an "invasion" of migrants and illegals. It's an invasion by government bullies looking to stay in power and appease a racist base.

Just because an incel like Miller can't make some girl like him, we all have to suffer. Even Millers wife, taking one for the fascist team, can't stand him any longer and is so beaten down, thinks a choad like Elon Musk is an attractive alternative. It's an invasion all right but not the one Miller and Trump think it is. 

They are the invaders of every decent Americans minds.

Resist 

PS- Ice vermin invaded Omaha today by raiding 3 meat packing plants. The low hanging fruit these cowards go for to please Miller's 3000 a day quota is pathetic. Word is employers were cooperating to avoid government blackmail. And yes, there were protestors. Hey folks, it's here in "Real America". We dont take kindly to invaders. Or do we?

California Trends!

 It's still exhausting. Donald Trump gets worse and worse every day. Once you realize that bottom will never be reached, it gets even more exhausting.

Over the weekend, we had the American Gestapo (ICE) decide to go to a Home Depot in Paramount, California to meet the Cosplay Barbie (Noem) quotas in rounding up all those MS13 gangsters (day laborers) that hang out in the parking lot to maybe pick up a roofing job on top of their drug dealing and sex trafficking profits. So, they've run out of "criminals" to roust. Since the human migraine (Tom Homan) took over as border czar (head of the American Stasi) this has never been about rounding up criminals. They are all gone, sent home under Biden and Trump in his first month. When the American KGB would round up 100 Hispanic men, 20% would have records deemed deportable while the remaining 80% were traffic violators or had no record at all. This was the sign either fellas you're out of criminals or fellas you suck at investigating and are so lazy you are picking the low hanging fruit. The low hanging fruit are kitchen workers, crop pickers, farm hands and construction workers. These are people who are doing shit jobs to send money home or feed their families. To the American SAVAK, they are just quota numbers. 

Noem and Homan are the bar floozy desperately trying to stay young and the loudmouth at the end of the bar spouting off his Archie Bunker bullshit without the comedy, respectively. They set quotas that can only be met with low hanging fruit. Thus, the protests in California. 

People are sick of this shit. Well, most people, there's always the Stephen Millers of the world who got rejected by a young woman of Hispanic origin in high school and decided to hate everybody not white. Those people are a lost cause bent of burning down the world. It's called MAGA.

But most people have had enough. Most people now know of a person being roughed up and rousted by a thumb breaking organization like ICE. We've seen it on the news, on social media or by word of mouth. Here, in Omaha, ICE agents, masked as usual, followed a young man to a local restaurant where he worked. He saw them and ran into his place of employment. ICE followed him into the diner, all geared up in their vests, guns and masks and took him down in the restaurant as people ate. One patron, a real humanitarian I'm sure, kneeled on the guy's legs as ICE did their usual "stop resisting" bullshit while cuffing the guy. The look on that kids face as he was pulled up was horrifying. He had no idea what was happening, had a speech impediment, spoke little English and was scared to death. Well good you say, he's an illegal and that's what I voted for. Oh yeah, he was the wrong guy but as the American Secret Police scream out "stop resisting" it warrants a bogus resisting arrest charge, so they are never wrong. It's fascism 101.

California starts trends. Resisting a fascist state is always a noble cause. Punching Nazis is always a noble cause. California has started a noble cause. As this military takeover of blue cities spreads, and it will, resistance is mandatory for any freedom loving person. Living here in "real America" where change is looked upon as a festering sore, this trend is not that far away. Progress always wins, and it may be a long bloody war, but it wins.

Resist!

Weekend At Donnie's!!

 What a weekend for the Fuehrer. He had to ramble on to West Point grads, go deal with Russia and China, then appear at Arlington National Cemetery to honor the dead. Hahaha! Who am I kidding? He played golf on the taxpayer's dime as usual. The rest was simply an inconvenience to the Traitor in Chief.

On Saturday the Felon showed up at West Point to address the 1000 or so graduates with a rip-roaring speech to congratulate them on their huge accomplishment. Hahaha again, no he talked about himself with his stupid red hat on cuz his hair might get blown off by a stiff wind. 

Trump wandered off into dementia land by telling the graduates a story about William Levitt, a real estate developer who croaked in the 1990s. Very similar to that sex yacht story he told to Boy Scouts in his first term. He rambled on about how Levitt got himself a "trophy wife" then said how that doesn't work out, the trophy wife because he knows all about that. Hello Melania! Then it was NATO and the old ripping us off speech. The Alfonse Capone riff, the no more DEI rant to a bunch of grads that included women, blacks, browns and probably gays. And finally, how nobody joined the military during the Biden years even though all 1000 of them DID join the service during the Biden years.

Speaking of Biden, who stuck around last year to personally shake the hands of all 1000 graduates, this year Trump had important shit to do so he had to leave early, something about dealing with Russia and China which is code for I have a tee time to get to so fuck off suckers and losers. I'm sure he shot a new course record of 18.

Then came Monday when the Bone Spur in Chief went to Arlington National Cemetery along with his drunken Defense Secretary and some bearded hillbilly to give yet another solemn speech about the suckers and losers who allowed themselves to be killed when he much prefers guys who didn't get killed, as long as they didn't lose limbs cuz who wants to see that?

 The Babbler in Chief went on after his forced message about the ultimate sacrifice and all that stuff he's supposed to talk about. Instead, he again veered off into incoherent gibberish about how Gawd put him in this place at this time, how bad the last four years were and then how he got the Olympics and the World Cup personally even though he shouldn't even be in office now because the 2020 election was "stollen". But Gawd had other ideas for Saint Donnie. Let's hope there's a new plan. Then he took a sharp right and began pimping his birthday parade which of course will be bigger than the Olympics AND the World Cup combined because it's HIM. The 79th anniversary of his birth via a jackal. Oh, he says it's about the 250th anniversary of the Army's founding but we all know he will be sitting there getting a mushroom boner watching tanks and planes and guns and marching bands playing YMCA while thinking about himself. It's my BIRTHDAY!! Bring me some cake! 

If the rest of the world has any sense, nobody comes here for the Olympics OR the World Cup in the atmosphere of Trumps Gestapo runs around picking up anybody who looks foreign. In fact, nobody from a foreign nation should ever come here, spend money and improve the American economy as long as this bigoted lump is in charge. Did tourists, other than 1935 version of MAGAts, go to Germany to enjoy the slaughter? 

Look, this weekend was a culmination of idiots, from Trump to his two ass lickers, Hegseth and Vance standing at every stupid thing he said, to his fucking golfing with Russia and China. 

The real sadness of this weekend is that America elected a doddering old senile blabbermouth without an iota of couth. Maybe somebody will write a book about the dangers of electing old white men to high office. Hey, what's happenin' Jake Tapper?

Free Press? Sycophantic Press Is More Like It!

 So the newest obsession of the Trump sycophantic press is to continue to beat that dead horse of an issue that Joe Biden is senile. Blah blah blah. The book by Jake Tapper, Original Sin, in which Biden's advisors and "democrats" like Jon Favreau and David Plouffe pitch the gossip and opinions that sell books. Biden is old, remember?

Meanwhile, the current President of the United States, a rambling thin-skinned felon, posts rants in the dead of the night demanding investigations of Beyonce and Bruce Springsteen, insults Taylor Swifts looks, insults Bruce's skin (?) and seems to be having some sort of mental crisis. But the press, soooo close to losing it all, continues to hammer the prior administration, not on a policy level but on a 100% personal level. They settle ridiculous lawsuits with a liar, a fraud and a political thug like Trump to placate his paper-thin epidermis and look out for what the free press cares about the most. Not the "free" part but the protection of profits and their own multi-million-dollar gigs. Journalism is dead, not the horse, but the profession.

Biden's decline is as relevant as a week-old gallon of milk sitting out on the counter. Keep RFK away from it. While obsessing over an 82 year old ex-president and ignoring the deportation of 4-year-old American cancer patients, a $400 million dollar bribe from a terrorist supporting government, the potential suspension of habeas corpus, and a madman railing about a singer. 

Wait what? Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer metastasized to the bones? Oh no Jake Tapper, that sucks for you. Your "scoop" on the fact Biden is old really got buried by that little tidbit didnt it? 

Fuck cancer, we can all agree on that, right? Guess not. Magats and their lefty useful idiots obsessed with Gaza say right on. Kill Biden with cancer. You can do it. They love cancer getting the right person almost as much as they hate libtards and Jews. 

Meanwhile, a sitting congresswoman, LaMonica McIver, has been charged by parking garage attorney Alina Habba Dabba Do and the latest unqualified goof appointed by a felon, with federal charges in regard to the dust up at the ICE concentration camp in New Jersey. You may remember the protest, in which the Mayor of Newark was detained, where ICE agents opened the gates, let the protesters in and then promptly fell on the fainting couch and screamed "invasion". McIver was protecting the Mayor and may have pushed some ICE thug away thus sending that agent into some sort of victim mode and cry a lot. McIver "assaulted" a fed. JFC come on now. These ICE goons assault people on a daily basis, disappear women and children, arrest the wrong people cuz they look brown and that's a crime to them and act like the Proud Boys, Three Percenters and Jan 6 hooligans they probably are. Hang tough Congresswoman, they got nuthin.

Hamilton!

 I've seen Hamilton 5 times now and it gets better each time. The more ya know the more ya appreciate the entire story. The Lin Manuel Miranda phenomenon may have faded a bit but the packed house in Omaha last night didn't seem to notice. Yeah, it's a decade old now and tours constantly while still being a Broadway staple but goddamit I'll wait for it every time it comes around.

The packed house was full of younger people fresh from whatever schools they attend. And the electricity began immediately. From the opening notes of Alexander Hamilton, they cheered loudly. They cheered loudly when the song ended. They cheered loudly for the remainder of the 2 1/2-hour spectacle.

We all know the story. Hamilton the son of a whore, comes to New York to do something with his life, which he treats like a burden that will end sooner than later. He becomes a lawyer, meets Aaron Burr, joins the revolution to kick the Brits out, marries Eliza Schuyler, becomes an absent Dad, has an affair, has his career ruined, loses his son in a duel defending his father's honor, and subsequently is killed in a duel himself that seems more like suicide than honor. Thats the story.

The musical itself is epic in its songs, its youthful exuberance and its performances. In the current touring company, there are no weak performances. The big voice needed from Angelica (Lauren Mariasoosay) is there and the big voice needed from George Washington (A D Weaver) is there. Both received huge applause.

Hamilton is played by Tyler Fauntleroy, who has the moves and the look to make it work. Marja Harmon is Eliza and plays Hamilton's long-suffering wife with grace and sadness. Aaron Burr is played by Jimmy JJ Jeter as the milquetoast politician without a principle he wishes to put forth. The feud between Hamilton and Burr is real. One stands for nothing, and one can't stop standing for everything. The inevitable end is apparent from the get-go. All these actors are first rate.

Now for the characters that never stop entertaining. Jared Howelton plays the dual role of Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, and he does both justice and more. Howelton plays Lafayette with vigor but when he becomes Jefferson in Act 2 and descends down those stairs milking the crowd the play takes a turn for the better. Howelton has a rubber face and a great voice. His facial expressions and Prince like 'tude make the story. He hates Hamilton because he represents his main rival. The gloating of Jefferson as Hamiltons scandal comes forth is prized comedy. He aint never gonna become President. He is phenomenal.

King George, the comic relief that Lin Manuel Maranda brilliantly put in the musical at perfectly appropriate times, is played by Justin Matthew Sargent. He glides onto the stage like he's floating on air and delivers the 3 songs everyone loves. He adds comic relief when he steps up on his tippy toes to appear taller than the woman informing him about John Adams. He makes the King his own character. It's brilliant.

The sound at the Orpheum still leaves a lot to be desired. It seemed like Act 2 made the sound worse. The orchestra sometimes drowned out the lyrics which could confuse people not familiar with what's happening. But if you are a Hamilton veteran, it doesn't matter, you know exactly what's happening.

Sorry but I am a fanboy. It never gets old. If I could, I'd see it again tonight. But if you want to experience a 10-year-old phenomenon, take it. Highly entertaining and informative. Thats how you teach America it's history.

Cuz ya know "immigrants we get the job done". The line never fails to hit hard. In this day of anti DEI and anti-immigrant prejudice, the fact a play with mostly black and Latino folk still draws huge crowds makes it hopeful that this asshole America will end. Soon please.

Did You Hear That Joe Was Old?

 Did ya hear the "bombshell " news? Joe Biden is old. He was old in 2024. Did y'all know that?

Jake Tapper, CNN's guy that both sides hate, has a new book coming out called Original Sin in which Tapper and his coauthor, Alex Thompson, Axios's guy that both sides hate, tell us that Joe Biden was old. Yeah, no shit. Did I want him to run again? Nope. When he decided to run did I throw a tantrum? Nope. When he dropped out after shitting the bed on national television during that debate did I despair? Nope. When Kamala Harris lost did I despair? You are goddamned right I did.

Tapper can write whatever he wants. He can sell books galore by stating the obvious, But the excerpts that have been released are misleading. Sure, the public was bombarded with daily reports that Biden was too old. The guy walked funny (probably because he busted his foot in 2020 and didn't wear the boot long enough), he spoke in an old man whisper, and quite frankly he was the perfect foil for the other old man who said stupid shit all the fucking time. In normal times, a presidential candidate stating "They're eating the dogs they're eating the cats" would have been laughed out of the race, but these are not normal times.

While Tapper has plenty of information in the last 100 days to report, ya know the Nazi crap and the outright bribery of a gutter thief, but he decided to rehash the past to write a book saying Biden was old. GASP! This is proof Tapper has no fucking idea of what's important. Joe Biden is old pales in comparison to Donald Trump is a fucking Nazi. But you go right ahead Jake. Tell the people the obvious. They will be fascinated to finally learn what they already knew.

The word BOMBSHELL has been plastered all over. The "bombshell" is that Old Joe Biden, had he won (which of course is ludicrous) might have needed a wheelchair. You know, like FDR and that prick from Texas. Oh, the horrors. But the real misleading part of the "Bombshell" is the whole wheelchair "scandal" was based on a what if. IF Joe Biden had tumbled off his bike again, like he did that once that became a MAGAt gif, and IF he hurt himself real bad, like IF he had busted a hip or a leg, he may have needed a wheelchair to get around for a while. And THAT was unacceptable to his blabby aides.

This stuff in this book is more like a novel. Biden was 82. Nobody is better at 82 than they were at 62. The mental decline happens to EVERYBODY. Including 78-year-old whackadoodles without a living brain cell in their noggin. I mean come on; the 78-year-old economic illiterate took a roaring economy and fucked it up in literal weeks. But Tapper would rather bring up that somebody somewhere said Biden didn't recognize George Clooney once. Shit I'm not sure I would either in a room full of celebrities. Theres a thing like too much perfect makes you blind. But Joe was old.

Chrissakes, we have a regime of Fox News nitwits, 1893 tariffs, rising prices, a gang of Gestapo running around throwing women with babies in their arms to the cement, planes crashing, air traffic controllers losing contact for 90 seconds at a time, a South African ketamine addict and a band of cargo shorted incels firing everybody who looks funny to them, drunks sending war plans to journalists and now a $400 million bribe from a terrorist funding country Trump hammered in 2017. 

But Biden was old.

Wow, I'm blown away by the information Jake.

Fascinating.

Hmmmm or Dohhhhh!

 Jesus H Christ it's all so exhausting. New Pope, 100 days of corruption, airplane bribes, ICE raids, Democrats arrested. Good lord

The New Pope. Pope Bob. Pope Leo XIV. American. White Sox fan. Despite initial reaction from the MAGAts on take that libs (assuming of course all Americans are assholes like them) now after being told by the right-wing media that the Pope is "woke" they are pissed. Well for crissakes, if the Pope aint "woke" who the hell is? The Pope defines "woke". Of course, to the neanderthals, "woke" means commie homo lovin gay feminists soy boys who dont accept white supremacy. Woke is actually tolerating the underrepresented, the minorities, the ones without a voice, the ones who need equality. Woke means educated. Willing to learn and change ones mind. The Pope is Pope Woke I whether you like it or not. Fuck Tedesco.

ICE, a gang of Proud Boys, Jan 6ers and the bottom of the barrel of law enforcement goons unable to secure legitimate police department employment, have run out of criminals. The criminals are all in jail or have been deported by the prior administration. So now, to meet Botox Barbie Noem's quota system, have started arresting anybody who looks brown, black or has a funny accent. The clowns who constitute ICE in their cosplay body armor, big guns, masks and jeans (?) are raiding neighborhoods with brutal force. These short men, most of whom were shoved into lockers as high schoolers, now have the power denied them by nature. And dammit they will have their revenge on women, children and babies. The strategy of cowards. Crazy overreactions to a family of madres and ninos breaking the law by existing, serving white people, white corporations and white farmers. This is what ICE does. They are bullies and trash. The very thing they suffered in their past they have now become. You are what you hate.

The country of Quatar. The funder of Houthis, Hamas and various other terrorists has jumped into the corruption of Trump. Last week the Felon, or through his corrupt spawns of Satan, announced a $5.5 billion dollar golf course and resort in Quatar. Over the weekend, Quatar announced they were "donating" a $400 million dollar airplane to the United States which could be used as a bugged Air Force One and THEN once the gutter crook is out of office will be "donated" once again to the Trump Library Foundation. Never use library and Trump in the same sentence. How could any of this be legal? But our esteemed bribe taking nitwit Attorney General, Pam Blondi, says it's all legal and above board, much like her $25K "donation" she took to drop the fraudulent Trump University case. Oh ad by the way, Blondi's last job before being appointed AG, was a lobbyist for the country of, wait for it, Quatar. The absolute criminality is as obvious as Karoline Leavitt's nose job.

Finally, on Friday, Democratic lawmakers and the Mayor of Newark protested outside an ICE concentration camp   detention center, ICEhwhitz if you will. ICE opened the gates to the facility, let them step inside and then arrested the mayor for whatever they thought of at the time. Being a decent human being perhaps. Instead of saying oops sorry, the ICE thugs doubled down, threatening more Democrats with arrest. Meanwhile someplace somewhere, Stephen Miller is furiously masturbating to his picture of Heinrich Himmler. Miller, the Goebbels look alike, who also threatened a suspension of habeas corpus, the very cornerstone of American justice. Miller is 39-year-old vermin who suffers from a lifetime of rejection by both women and decent folks who don't throw trash on the ground to make work for janitors. Ya know, people who actually return shopping carts to the corral. Miller is a spineless little rat suddenly given power and he will exact his revenge. Ya know, like the ICE thugs.

Fuck this place.

Thoughts!

 Jesus Christ, now they're arresting judges, deporting America citizens, raiding night clubs, sticking mug shots on the White House lawn while a 34 times convicted felon runs the show, and inviting paid Russian propagandists to the White House press pool. Trumps ICE is a rogue police force that has no rules. Per AG and bribe taker, Pam Bondi, no warrant is needed to bust into houses. If they look thru your garbage and find taco seasoning, I guess that's "probable cause" to these goons. It's madness. And it must be stopped. I guess if regulation of guns is a non-issue, let's let that 2nd Amendment fly its freak flag high. Reminder here, liberals own guns too. Tread lightly.

The Pope's funeral was Saturday and world leaders from all over were there to pay their respects. Our illustrious dementia stricken POTUS, The Felon, was there in his blue suit so he could stand out among the rest of the world who followed protocol and wore black. Trumpski sat there, next to Melania (I think it was her) and fell asleep, No he wasn't fucking praying Magats. That heathen has never prayed in his entire miserable life. Unless it was for underaged girls to shut up. After Zelensky received a round of applause, and Macron ignored his handshake and other world leaders shunned him for being the peasant he is, he pouted and immediately left so he could play golf with a sellout named Saquon Barkley. The dumb is astounding.

Pete Hegseth, drunk, is still there. Despite opening his war plans to any idiot on the internet because he's too lazy to go thru proper channels, or too loaded. This because nobody in this putrid regime accepts responsibility for anything. It's Bidens fault, or the borders' fault or the liberal media or blah blah. Kristi Noem had her fucking passport and $3K in cash stolen. Of course, it was an illegal. Yeah sure it was wink wink. This cabinet is full of liars, cheats, drunks and divas. 

Finally, Trumps approval rating are in the toilet. 39% after 99 days of chaos. Who the hell are these 39%? It is amazing that 10 years ago only 25% of anything was fucking nuts. Now its 39%. But Trump knows all bad news is fake. All facts are lies. All science is junk. All elections are rigged (unless they win). All morals are suggestions. All immigrants are illegal. All brown people are illegal. All black people are cheats. All women are deranged. All Asians are sneaky. It's like Archie Fucking Bunker got elected. Remember him? We used to laught at his antics and racism. Apparently, too many people thought it was a documentary on "America Foist". 

Geez.

Bill Maher!

 Look, I used to watch Bill Maher on Politically Incorrect way back and I didn't care for the guy then. Not that he didn't make me think, he did, but he came across as an arrogant prick. Then he got cancelled, which I think affected him far more than he let on. So, he went to HBO and started a show called Real Time on Friday nights. His monologue is trash. He so obviously imitates Johnny Carson right down to the sideways glances and audience scolding. Then he talks to a news maker one on one which can be interesting, but Bill makes it all about him. Then the panel and depending on the week, it also can be interesting. He regularly invites conservatives and liberals and then came 2016. The panel began to contain nutjobs like Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon types. These people are bomb throwers, not conservatives, thus you get nothing out of it. Then came 2020. Biden won, and Maher went all I gotta hate whatever is in power. He slammed liberals. some of it justified, but some of it was pure hey look at me, I'm a free spirit. I am so fair. You're out of touch not me. His happiest day may have been when Kamala lost. Even though he had predicted her to win, he couldn't wait for the I told you so. It's almost like never mind what I said then, what I say now is all that counts. I am never wrong, just flexible. WHO does that sound like?

Bill Maher spoke to Kid Rock on his show and Bob invited him to the White House for Dinner With Donald. Maher, ever the publicity hound, said sure. We just HAVE to talk with the other side. Bill is so fair. Then he went to dinner with 4 meatheads. Trump, UFC lunkhead Dana White, the aforementioned Kid Rock, fave of rockin meth heads everywhere and Trump himself, the ultimate lame brain. Bill posed for pictures, bragged that he wore a suit, and clinked wine glasses with the Bonehead Brain Trust.

Bill came home, kept the trip details under wraps, and then spilled the beans on his show. Trump laughed, he was cordial, he listened, he was funny and nice, and it all went well. Then Bill shrugged and said in his oh so typical smarmy way, Hey he was nice to me so therefore he must be an ok guy.

The reaction is furious. He is being slammed by not only libs, but by normal Republicans not under the spell. He got called out by a panelist for allowing himself to be used as a prop and the thin skinned Maher got personal, because, like Trump, he is never ever wrong. Maher doubled down and insisted Trump was personable, at least to me. And it continues. Maher will not back down with the Trump's a nice guy shit. He's killing himself and I've got popcorn.

Larry David hit the kill shot on Maher over the weekend. An opinion piece in the New York Times titled My Dinner With Adolf. A fictional meeting with Hitler in 1939, in which Larry met Hitler, who was personable and funny and made jokes about Goering. A real cool guy that Hitler. And then Larry left and fired off the Nazi salute he was so taken with Adolf. 

Larry David is everyman. He is self-deprecating and not afraid to make himself the bad guy, and Curb was perhaps the funniest show ever, But Maher just keeps up the arrogance and the condescending attitude and the I'm better than you persona.

Larry lives in the real world. Maher lives in a world in which he is King of Comedy. He sits on an imaginary throne and he aint gettin off.

So, Maher and Trump are the same guy. Thin skinned, never wrong, thinks he knows best and fuck you if you disagree.

The problem is Trump was elected by 77 million idiots. Maher is elected by nobody and is subject to ratings. I have a feeling those ratings are about to go the way of the Dow Jones. Crash and burn.

The Pope!

 I retired from Catholicism years ago. Probably around 1968 or so I stopped paying attention, stopped going to communion, stopped going to confession and stopped going to Mass, at least mentally. The whole thing seemed cult like with costumed humans pretending to know the answers (tho whenever I asked a question the answer was shut up). I suffered thru Catholic school for 12 years and once out I vowed to never return. I have returned for funerals and weddings but that was for the people involved. But being a "cultural Catholic" will never leave me. Living in the Midwest, Catholicism is often just an extension of conservative politics. It is foreign to me. The teachings of Jesus are ignored in order to preserve the white privilege and to whip yourself into a frenzy over somebody else's choice you don't like. The poor are there by choice, the homeless are also, racism is bad but what can I do about it, sexual abuse in the church is to be ignored and the American hierarchy must be MAGA.

But this Pope. This guy, Pope Francis, made me more of a cultural Catholic than ever before. The Pope was a positive force in the world. He didn't condemn anyone. He preached love and fairness and climate change and welcoming immigrants and just be kind. For that, we have resistance from conservative Catholics (an oxymoron if there ever was one) and online today pieces of shit like Marjorie Taylor Greene openly celebrating the demise of "evil". 

I loved the Pope. He was exactly what I always believed what a Pope should be. A decent man doing the Lord's work. Rich people don't need a Pope sticking up for them. The poor and the sick do need a voice. Pope Francis was that voice. 

Now let's just hope the Conclave doesn't screw this up and install a "Tedesco" to the seat. In this day and age of asshole, fascist leadership all over the world, a Pope should be the one fighting them. 

So long Jorge Mario Bergoglio. You were the best.

The picture is to remind us that Popes have senses of humor as do Presidents. Senses of humor that do not involve punching down as we have become.

The world is a less kind place today.

50501 Rallies!

 Did it make me feel better? Yep! Did I feel I accomplished anything? Probably not but everything starts somewhere and I will be in on the ground floor of a revolution that topples fascism. Or I'm heading for the gulag. Whatever. Living in this country, at this time, with the cruelty and the lies and the number of total assholes who crawled out of the swamp doesn't really make me feel safe any longer. Oh, not from the so-called rampant crime and all those "illegals" that are murdering white women thousands of times a day, but from suit and tie wearing Nazis working hard to Make America White Again. This administration is unlike anything I've ever seen, and I am old. I've been thru Nixon and Reagan and the  Bush boys and as bad as that seemed, this is beyond belief. A reality show host, embraced by losers who need to place to blame on their loser status by blaming anyone unlike them. Immigrants, women, gays, trans, liberals, minorities or the intelligentsia. Whatever I don't like, is keeping me down. It's sad.

Yesterday all over the nation, people of all stripes, all ages, all genders, all believing that fascism, Naziism, revenge, and lack of due process are wrong, came out to wave signs and be together to not feel so alone. Red states, blue states, cities, rural towns (special shoutout to Rushville, Nebraska, as ruby red of an area as there is in this nation had 43 brave souls line the street to express themselves) all stood together for a couple of hours or so and said no more. Will it work? Again, everything starts somewhere.

Look, I am not afraid to live in a state that has elected some of the stupidest people on Earth year after year because despite 30 some years of GOP rule, the majority of the state is unwilling to change. Vote R no matter what. They raise your property taxes to outrageous levels, raise income taxes rates on everyday people while granting virtually any business tax breaks, and ban abortion, fuck around with this idiot bathroom shit, ban transgender treatment, and vote to give everybody breathing a fucking gun but you still vote for them. Political fear is not a reaction, its cowardice.

I got in trouble in high school for advocating the end of a war in Vietnam. Take off that black armband they said. Stop rabble rousing they said. We will make your life miserable unless you fall into line and stop with this anti Nixon shit. Let me put it this way, they succeeded in making my high school experience a miserable slog of daily abuse. I hate the place to this day.

I've stepped up against Reagan, against the first Gulf War, the second Gulf War, Trumps first fiasco and now, at my advanced age, against this current band of authoritarian pricks. I am too old to stop now.

So, did yesterday make me feel better? Fuck yeah it did. And if you think that this does no good, well you're just an apathetic dope, probably either a fascist yourself, rich enough to withstand economic collapse or so cynical you are beyond help, sitting in the easy chair cutting down anything you feel too beaten down to understand. Chrissakes, the rally in Omaha featured a long rambling speech by some local self-proclaimed "communist "who bathes in the limelight of pissing into the tent by hammering "white liberals" as worse than the KKK. So far off the edge, he's just another fascist.

In conclusion, I am selfish enough to enjoy feeling better and thinking it's good for MY mental health. If you don't, well continue to do nothing. And when they finally come for you, broke and mentally exhausted, there will be nobody to stand up for you.

Special shoutout yesterday to the assholes gunning their Harleys and disrupting speeches, flipping us off, and riding around without helmets (Cmon organ donors!). You clowns give the bike riding community a bad name. It was so precious to watch the little boys having fun.

Foxtrot Delta Tango my friends. Forever.

100 Days?

 I thought I'd give him 100 days to fuck everything up and then comment. But he's much better at fucking shit up than even I thought. Ugh. 

Some Like It Hot!

 You've seen the movie, right? That 1959 Billy Wilder classic was bold for its time with the cross dressing and mature themes but basically, it's a farce, slapstick type of film.

The musical based on the movie opened in Omaha last night to a pretty packed house. It's a bit updated to go even further than the movie in its themes but forget all that, It's 2025 and gay, transgender and drag are in the mainstream despite what the MAGAts and its rather vocal minority are trying to do.

The story is as follows. Two song and dance men in 1933, Joe and Jerry, are hustling for gigs and stumble upon a mob murder. They need to go on the run to avoid being killed. They come up with the idea to join an all-girl jazz band by dressing as dames and touring the country until they reach San Diego where they will cross the border. Will Spats, the mob boss, find them before that? Will Joe continue to Gilligan every situation? Will Jerry ever get tired of being a woman?

This musical has some great songs. It is also without a doubt the wildest musical I have ever seen. There are so many things going on at once onstage it's sometimes hard to keep track of. But this crazy old-fashioned type of musical (despite the updated views on many themes) is just such a throwback to what entertained people for centuries. You cannot not like actors who can sing and dance and create such a frenzy onstage that it exhausts you too. The last 10 minutes of this nuttiness is absolutely brilliant. There is a chase scene involving a kind of musical doors atmosphere in which the actors are going in and out of doors, singing, dancing and making the crowd laugh while at the same time being amazed at the energy. Yeah, as I said, it exhausted me too. It was wild to see this slapstick/tap dancing/singing craziness going on all at once. The rehearsal involved must be flawless and it paid off onstage.

Now the performers. Matt Loehr is Joe, a combination sax player and con artist. Loehr is fantastic. Once he becomes "Josephine" in women's clothing he also becomes Dana Carvey as church lady. I challenge anyone to not be waiting for him to exclaim "well isn't that special".

Tavis Kordell is Jerry the bass player. He's kind of a follower who lets Joe get them in trouble time after time. But once he becomes Daphne, the tall drink of water, he becomes the leader. Realizing who he really is, this character is truly the interesting one as he becomes himself. Kordell is just a force onstage with his dancing and singing. He will be one to watch for. Also think of Mrs. Howard on Abbott Elementary.

Leandra Ellis-Gaston is Sugar, the singer in the band, She is bound and determined to become a star. Joe falls in love (as Josephine) with her and has to keep up the charade of being Josephine and Kip, the German "screenwriter" who will take her to the top. Gaston is good but for some reason she didn't connect with me as a character. But this woman can sing!

Now for Tarra Connor Jones as Sweet Sue, the leader of the band. Sweet Sue is a bad ass. Sue cannot believe what is happening to her band. Jones can act with her face. Keeping an eye on her for her priceless facial reactions is comedy gold. Plus, she gets lots of sassy lines and had the crowd in the palm of her hand.

Some Like It Hot is wild. It's maybe the best show of the 2024-2025 season. Boredom will not be a problem as there really are no speed bumps. 

Obviously. I recommend this musical highly. It's not heavy at all. It's comedy at its core and it succeeds.

Bravo!